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OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - Feb. 12, 2013) - Calian Technologies Ltd. (TSX:CTY) is pleased to announce that its Business and Technology Services Division has been awarded a contract for the Air Technical Training Renewal (ATTR) project from the Department of National Defence (DND). Calian will provide Instructional Analysis, Instructional Design and Instructional Content Development services to modernize the existing Air Technician Training courses using electronic training delivery and blended learning solutions. Calian will utilize Atlantis Systems as a sub-contractor for the delivery of this contract leveraging their expertise in instructional design and content development.
The base two-year contract is estimated to be in excess of $4 million, with the overall value increasing to approximately $8 million if the two, one-year options are exercised. This requirement is in addition to the training services that Calian staff are already providing in the Canadian Forces School of Aerospace and Technology and Engineering at CFB Borden.
"We appreciate DND's confidence in our abilities to provide training services as well as the opportunity to expand these services to the Royal Canadian Air Force" said Kevin Ford, President, Business and Technology Services. "We look forward to working with DND and Atlantis in the delivery of this contract - an exciting and strategic win for the Calian training service line".
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Oh, goats. They are such lovely creatures! Daisy is currently giving us more milk than we know what to do with, and she is quite the sweetie.
However, everyone knows that goats are escape artists. Ours are no exception! I'm getting rather tired of goats in my garden (twice now I've had to replant beans and tomatoes!) and I sure don't feel great about them getting into the neighbouring GMO soy field.
Today we set up a portable electric fencing system so that we could move the goats around various parts of the yard. The idea was that they'd munch down the grass & weeds, and then we'd move them on to the next spot. It was a lovely idea and perfect in theory, until we attempted to put it into practice.
On this wonderful first day of Summer, in blistering heat and searing sun, Jae and I pounded a copper grounding rod 6 feet into the ground – no small feat! We set up all the fence posts, strung the wire, turned on the fully-charged solar fence energizer, and placed the goats inside their new pen.
In less than one minute, they were out. They received a big zap – we saw the sparks – paused for half a moment, and then they barreled right on through as though the wire was not even there.
Goats:1, Solar fence:0
I hollered after the goats and declared that I was sick enough of them in my garden that I'd be happy to get rid of them altogether. Lynden started crying, "Please don't get rid of my goats, I love those guys, please let me keep them!" and Raina joined in with a high-pitched wail.
So now Jae is returning the expensive solar electric fencing system to the TSC and reinforcing the fence around the goat yard, where those stubborn beasts are supposed to be contained. And the lush, overgrown lawn? Well, I think we'll finally give in & purchase a lawnmower, and feed the goats the clippings.


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Plug In, Drop Out
+Jim Motavalli is the author most recently of High Voltage: The Fast Track to Plug In the Auto Industry (Rodale), and is a contributor to The New York Times, Car Talk at NPR, and the Mother Nature Network.
If I were buying a new car today, I'd reluctantly pass on ethanol (E85) and biodiesel options. My car of choice would be a plug-in hybrid – probably the Chevy Volt, although the Ford C-Max Energi and Honda Accord also look very attractive.
I see the plug-in hybrid as a transitional technology on the way to electric cars. Pure battery electric vehicles (EVs) are still pretty expensive, and on vehicles like the Nissan Leaf they're still getting the bugs out. Some owners in Phoenix are finding out that running a car without active temperature control for the battery pack in 100-degree-plus weather reduces battery range. No doubt the second generation of the Leaf will be much better.
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As talk show host Jay Leno told me with quite a bit of passion, the plug-in hybrid idea – 40 miles of all-electric range from a modest battery pack, backed up with a gas engine capable of another 300 miles or more – just makes sense. Leno bought a Volt, and promptly put 10,000 miles on it without using the gasoline engine much at all. The Volt, he said, is "the smart one." Why? Because it's "an electric car 95 percent of the time. But when you need to go to Vegas or San Francisco, it turns into a regular car. That's the key."
Both automakers and EV advocates – who hate the idea of burning any gas at all – point out that most of us never travel more than 35 miles in a day, including the round-trip commute. I buy that. But we also take longer trips occasionally, and there still aren't enough public recharging networks along our highway to make EVs viable for long-distance trips – yet. But make no mistake, the era of the EV is coming.
I have no doubt that we're headed for electrified transportation on a global basis, even if we have to go over some speed bumps to get there. I want to see battery EVs come down in price and extend range from the current 100-mile average (80 or so in the real world) to a reliable 125 miles or so. That will do a lot to kill "range anxiety" – drivers' worries that they won't be able to find a recharge station. I expect both of these things to happen with technology now in the pipeline. For instance, Envia Systems, a battery maker in
California, announced in February 2012 that it had achieved what it called a "major breakthrough" in lithium-ion cell technology that would result in a significant increase in the energy density – and a sharp reduction in the cost – of lithium-ion battery packs. Battery technology sat dormant for decades (lead-acid was state of the art in 1910 – and 1980 as well), but now everybody is looking for the new killer app.
I like some biofuels, although palm oil – produced in Southeast Asia by clear-cutting rainforests – is an example of how it can go horribly wrong. But other biofuels are better. Biodiesel, for instance, makes a great cottage industry. People have formed local collectives to produce it, and some drivers have modified their cars to run on pure vegetable oil. Some McDonald's restaurants in the UK are even converting their own waste grease into biodiesel to run some of their trucks. I applaud those efforts. Long may they persevere.
I'm also very interested in cellulosic ethanol, especially because the fuel can be made from fast-growing native grasses that would thrive on waste land. That avoids the "food vs. fuel" controversy that plagues corn ethanol. But cellulosic ethanol, while enormously promising, is still in an embryonic stage.
My problem with biofuels in general and biodiesel from soybean crops specifically is that they don't scale appropriately. Buying a car that runs on biodiesel or E85 gasoline might be a smart choice for an individual. But it's not a solution for society as a whole. There's simply not enough land for us to feed ourselves and grow enough biomass to fuel our vehicles.
Even though the US is the king of soybean production, we can never produce enough to power the transportation monster, even were we to divert the whole crop from animal feed and other uses. A group called the Energy Justice Network reports: "In order to produce enough biodiesel to convert our entire transportation needs to soy biodiesel, we would need to plant 2.8 billion acres of farmland in soybeans. In the US, roughly 302 million acres of land is now used for growing crops." Right now about 81 million acres are planted in soybeans. You see how far we have to go.
According to David Pimentel of Cornell (a critic not exactly beloved in biofuel circles), "There is just no energy benefit to using plant biomass for liquid fuel. These strategies are not sustainable." He says that "soybean plants require 27 percent more fossil energy than the fuel produced." Corn ethanol appears to be an even worse bargain energy-wise. T.W. Patzek, a professor at UC-Davis, argues that "more fossil fuel energy is used to produce ethanol from corn than the ethanol's calorific value."
Yes, biofuels have a modest role to play. But I think the future is electric. Eventually we'll all be driving electric cars with electrons produced from zero-emission sources like solar and wind. In the meantime, the plug-in hybrid is an excellent stepping stone.
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Very interesting now I have a new job before I return my leased car. Meanwhile I am investigation ways to save energy.In this country everything has to be made using the car miraculously we still have to walk inside malls. How much energy would we save if we walk more, use the animal traction small vehicles in farms, ride horses to go places even training the dog to pick up the newspaper, using the wind to move small boats in rivers. Looks like a joke but think, about.
By D.H. Hernandez on Thu, January 31, 2013 at 6:55 am
I have never been a professor at UC Davis. I spent 18 year at Cal Berkeley as a professor of geoengineering.
Unfortunately, this is just one on many more serious factual errors in this article and the comments that follow.
As a reality check please read my 2007 OECD paper, "How Can We Outlive Our Way of Life?" This paper was prepared for the fall 2007 meeting of the EU ministers of environment and transportation.
Please try to appreciate just how prescient this paper was. For those who cannot be bothered with too much reading, here is the translation:
For the fundamental reasons related to the Earth's global metabolism, a high volume production of biofuels is not possible at the scale of the planet.
By Tadeusz W. Patzek on Thu, December 06, 2012 at 7:05 am
I have a Chevy Volt also, and I love it. But driving the Volt has also made me aware of the limitations of electric vehicles such as cost, range and sensitivity to temperature. My range (here in Michigan) has gone from 40 miles per charge to about 29—and we haven't even gotten to the cold part of the winter. Electric vehicles can and should fill a significant part of the light duty vehicle market but they can never serve the heavy truck market, construction equipment, shipping and jet transport…and most rail transport. We need both electric vehicles and biofuels. It is not either/or. Also, there are many other knowledgeable academics who disagree with the methods and conclusions of Profs. Pimentel and Patzek. If you want a balanced treatment of that subject, it is pretty easy to find: Google an article in Sustainability by C. Hall, B. Dale and D. Pimentel.
By Bruce Dale on Wed, December 05, 2012 at 4:02 am
Patzek hasn't been at U.C. Davis for almost five years. His bogus ethanol energy studies (which included energy from sunlight, as if that could shine somewhere else if farmers didn't plant corn) got him a gig at the University of Texas, where he's a professor in the Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering. Pimentel is an entymologist - a bug doctor, and if you asked any farmer about his inputs for corn calculations, and any ethanol maker about his energy inputs for making ethanol, they'd tell you he's full of the stuff dung beetles (something he knows) feed on.
And where will we get all this electricity? From coal, natural gas, or nuclear power plants? And what of the energy balance of that process? There is possibly no process that is less energy efficient than making electricity - regardless of how we make it.
I cringe every time someone says "we can't replace all of X, so we shouldn't even try." I've got news for you, if 250 million cars were plugged in every night to recharge, we wouldn't have power to exchange our views on the internet - or power to do anything else. But assuming we would change to a fleet of electric cars all at once is as stupid as assuming every diesel car would start running one vegetable oil diesel overnight, and almost as dumb as suggesting the only kind of vegetable oil that would be used would be from soybeans.
My main question is, Why does it have to be one or the other? Why not some electrics, some hybrids, some ethanol, some biodiesel, some solar power, some wind, some geothermal, some hydro, and a whole lost less oil? Fossil fuel producers want us to argue against each other - because it beats the hell out of all of us arguing against them.
By Ronnie V on Wed, December 05, 2012 at 12:16 am
My question, that often seems over looked, is the environmental costs for producing the batteries. What happens when the batteries need replacement…land fills? How toxic and how much energy is used to manufacture the batteries, then transport them to different manufacturers globally? What is the eco score from a-z versus biodiesel or hydrogen, etc?
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I'm old enough to remember when the first woman reporter was allowed into the locker room after a game. I was a little kid and I didn't like sports, I didn't know what all the fuss was about. Now I'm wondering if the guitar world might need a little moment like that of it's own.
A few months ago I stumbled across an ad in Vintage Guitar Magazine that I am still very confused about. The names have been blacked out so as to give the company a chance to maybe rethink their advertising strategy/not give any bump to this advertising strategy. (If you're curious, go buy the magazine!)
When it comes to allegations of sexism in the guitar & musical instrument industry, I tend to take it with a grain of salt. I'm not sure if I'm up-in-arms exactly, like I said, I find this confusing:
I understand that guys like to call their cars, boats, guitars, and whatever other expensive items that they may covet 'she', and I don't have a problem with that. I bet there's mountains of feminist writing that deals with that topic, I tend to think of it a weird, but not offensive (on the flip side, I can't think of one thing that women would refer to, endearingly, as 'he' besides an actual male person) But this I think, carries the metaphor a little too far. Am I right? What do you think? Go ahead-answer in comments!
As I look through the pages of various Guitar/Musical Instrument trade magazines, I can't help but notice that its all white male faces. Men that own companies, run companies, run sales divisions, and of course, run marketing departments. All this seems to turn into an industry run by men for men. I'm not saying it's wrong (OK, maybe just a little), I think my big point here, one that I've pointed out before, is that it's an industry that just can't seem to relate to women. Maybe this is just a guys club here, like death-metal, it's an environment created to keep women out. Opening up the locker room didn't ruin professional sports, it's not going to ruin guitars.


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Pitch Perfect
It is my estimation that there are very few people on the fence about seeing a movie about the universe of college a capella. The people who want to see this movie would all but kill to do so on the other hand, there are those who'd rather endure a three-hour documentary on the referendum to criminalize the distribution of lead-based paints. I was hardly in the latter category upon approaching Pitch Perfect. I wholeheartedly enjoyed the seasonal performances of my college's championship-winning a capella group, the Binghamton Crosbys (namedrop). I would happily welcome an influx of musical films to mainstream Hollywood. I really, really liked the first season of Glee. I say all this to illustrate how open to the idea of Pitch Perfect I was, and how much I really wanted to like the movie. Unfortunately, as I would reluctantly acknowledge not long into the picture, Pitch Perfect was missing many of its marks. Not all, but many.
The movie touts itself not as Glee: The Movie, as many on the opposing side are likely to deem it, but as something far more self-aware. There are a handful of jokes about the rigid containment of the a capella world's celebrity, with remarks that all the authentically cool kids at the central Barden University exist beyond the confines of the a capella community. Unfortunately, while it strives to adopt a self-deprecating attitude toward the tropes of the genre, it draws the line at the rejection of the more hackneyed elements of its romantic and interpersonal storylines.
While the story is based in the always-worth-revisiting "be yourself" underdog theme, it doesn't quite execute this idea with full force. The highly talented Anna Kendrick plays Beca, a "rebellious" aspiring deejay, enticed into the nearly defunct Barden Bellas by well-meaning vet Chloe (Brittany Snow) due to her natural skill for singing, but disliked by queen bee Aubrey (Anna Camp) for being just a little too different. But in all honesty, she's hardly different enough to evoke our sympathies. In fact, the only outstanding characteristics Beca seems to have is that she's pretty self-entitled, and always a little bit miffed. Still, she's the apple of everyone's eye, including the guileless, flimsy male lead Jesse (Skylar Astin), who himself is a cherished new member of Barden's rival a capella group, the all-male Treblemakers led by the wickedly obnoxious top dog Bumper (Adam DeVine). Beca and Jesse are meant to found the real emotional crust of the movie; he teaches her about the greats of cinematic soundtracks, and about not pushing people away, and she... well, she doesn't really teach him about anything. Their relationship lacks the real substance that would effectively carry the film, based primarily on the fact that they're both cute and microscopically off-center.
And then there are the supporting characters the Bellas' team of misfits whom we're meant to love. Rebel Wilson leads this pack as the kooky, brazen, self-decreed Fat Amy. Beside her, the sexually-charged Stacie (Alexis Knapp), the quiet psychopath Lilly (Hana Mae Lee), and Cynthia Rose (Ester Dean), whose alluded homosexuality is, quite unfortunately, the punchline of her character, among a few faceless sub-supporting characters. And while the theme does don a sheath of the classic "be yourself" mindset, it seems to be more interested in poking fun of these girls and their quirks than it is in celebrating them.
But they do band together, they do develop a camaraderie, and they do come to compromise their differences in order to better one another and the team. And then comes the final musical number.
See, for all of the film's faults, there is something it knows how to do: it puts on one hell of a show. As much of a cynical nitpicker as you might be, once the Bellas' final performance on the competition mainstage takes way, you're bound to enjoy it. Showcasing the individual vocal talents of each of the (primary) singers, sewn together in an expertly crafted compilation piece, viewers are likely to get a chill or two. This is where Pitch Perfect hits: in its sheer, unembarrassed celebration of a capella, of music in general, and of the girls onscreen. The movie makes the mistake of trying to have it both ways. When it goes for self-deprecation, it makes it look all the more unaware of its inherent flaws in plot and character. But in being what plenty of people would be just fine with an a capella movie that isn't ashamed of loving a capella any more than its over-the-top characters are it succeeds. Unfortunately, this sentiment feels limited to the final performance of the film. But to its credit, it's a performance good enough to make up for a whole lot of the stuff that leads up to it.
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Preparing homemade dumplings can often seem like a daunting task, and when the filling is a simple mixture of ground beef or potatoes, the one-note result makes the project seem less worthwhile.
Not so with Lauryn Chun's Pan-fried Kimchi Dumplings from The Kimchi Cookbook. Loaded with bright and crunchy kimchi, tofu, beef, and sesame oil, these dumplings are worth every minute spent filling and crimping. (And, yes it does take quite a while to prepare each dumpling, so plan ahead).
Why I picked this recipe: Kimchi dumplings are one of my favorite things to order at Korean restaurants, so I was excited to try my hand at making my own.
What worked: The copious amounts of tofu indeed gave the dumplings a light texture, and its mildness allowed the flavor of the tofu to shine through.
What didn't: If your cast iron isn't impeccably seasoned, I'd recommend making these in a non-stick skillet.
Suggested tweaks: It is easy to make these vegan, simply leave out the egg and ground beef. After making a few meat-free dumplings for my veggie-friends, I found I actually liked these more than the dumplings with beef.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of The Kimchi Cookbook to give away this week.


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Your own Princess yacht, the wide blue horizon, yet without the traditional complexities of owning a yacht. YachtQuarters is a new way to live the Mediterranean dream at a fraction of the usual cost. Now we're offering interested parties the chance to understand this new concept during the Southampton Boat Show 2018.YachtQuarters was launched back in January 2018. It is a unique shared acquisition program where every aspect of the yacht's operation, maintenance and management is looked after by experienced permanent crew and the professional management team at Princess Motor Yacht Sales, the world's largest Princess distributor and a leading European maritime service provider for over 50 years. The programme features a stunning new Princess 75 Motor Yacht, Maltese-flagged and based at Port Adriano in Palma de Mallorca, just 30 minutes' drive from the airport. She boasts eight berths in four luxurious en-suite cabins, and separate quarters for two or three crew members.The YachtQuarters yacht manager will ensure that each owner enjoys a total of eight trouble-free weeks onboard during the year: two in summer, four in spring and autumn, and two off-season. This ensures that owners get maximum value from their investment.Outgoings such as servicing, maintenance, repairs, storage etc. are predictable based on costs from the previous year and shared equally between all owners. Individual owners will be responsible only for their consumables such as food, drinks and fuel.The crew can replace the owners' personal effects and ensure food and drinks preferences are onboard prior to arrival to ensure that the owners feel at home as soon as they step aboard their yacht. YachtQuarters' budgets include permanent crew for the Princess 75 and her toys (jet tender, water skis, banana boats, Seabobs, snorkling gear etc.), complete management and operation, as well as reserves for unexpected expenses. In comparison to charter, the total cost per week with YachtQuarters is approximately 65% of a corresponding charter. The yacht will always be kept in superb condition through the meticulous management of the crew and Princess Motor Yacht Sales' aftercare service, safeguarding the investment. This will ensure the yacht is in perfect condition on arrival, ready for a memorable experience in the perfect cruising area of the western Mediterranean. Investment in YachtQuarters creates a four-partner ownership structure that lasts for four years, after which the boat is sold and the structure dissolved. If, after a minimum of two years, an owner wishes to opt out, they can sell their share as a liquid asset.At this year's Southampton Boat Show, potential owners will have a wonderful opportunity to engage directly with the YachtQuarters team and take a moment to tour the beautiful Princess 75 which will be on display. Whilst at the show, visitors can speak directly our programme manager, and understand from his long-standing experience, just what is different about this concept and how it works.
August 17, 2018
Australian custom Superyacht builder Echo Yachts have proudly revealed their 84m superyacht newbuild project White Rabbit during an exclusive VIP event at their shipyard in Henderson, Western Australia.White Rabbit is 100% custom designed and built according to its experienced Owners exacting requirements and is the culmination of 4 years of detailed design and construction efforts by the team involved. At nearly 3000 gross tonnes, 84m in length and 19.6m beam, White Rabbit is largest superyacht built in Australia as is the largest aluminium and largest tri-hull superyacht in the world.Designed by Sorgiovanni Design, White Rabbit showcases the highest standards of luxury cruising and will provide amazing seakeeping, speed and fuel efficiency for a vessel of its size and magnitude. Echo Yachts celebrated the reveal of White Rabbit in style during the exclusive reveal function featuring an evening of VIP speeches, video documentary of the build, plus an evocative and memorable sound and light show including special guest and cellist Ms Joanna Quail of London.Guests were provided the rare opportunity to step onboard and view some of the expansive exterior entertaining spaces and enormous luxury interior spaces thanks to the hospitality of White Rabbit's owner and family who were in attendance for the special event. Echo Yachts director Mark Stothard: "The Echo Yachts team are extremely proud to have been entrusted to create this truly unique and amazing superyacht for our valued client and it has been a pleasure to achieve such a fantastic result together with Sorgiovanni Design, One2Three Naval architects and ALIA Interiors.The enormous trimaran hull form and refined styling of White Rabbit create a profound and immediate Wow Factor that no other hull form can quite achieve. We are confident that this unique Trimaran will produce outstanding performance and provide distinct benefits compared to other hull forms in terms of shear guest space, plus sea keeping and fuel efficiency which we intend to prove during sea trials in the near future.Our team are really looking forward to launching White Rabbit and demonstrating the amazing benefits and performance characteristics this special type of yacht delivers". Final preparations are now underway for the launch of White Rabbit in early September. Echo Yachts will be attending this year's Monaco Yacht Show and available for appointments to discuss newbuild and refit opportunities, with immediate build capacity available.
August 16, 2018
Two of the world's largest sailing yachts, Eos and Athena, have booked the same timing for their coming refit projects.The 93-metre three-masted Lürssen schooner Eos, until recently the world's largest sailing yacht, has for some time been a regular customer for Royal Huisman's superyacht refit division, Huisfit. The Eos team has just signed a new contract with Huisfit, taking full advantage of the flexible choice of deep water location offered to meet their needs and schedule.At the same time, the Huisfit team is delighted to announce that the 90-metre three masted schooner Athena, built by Royal Huisman in 2004 and with a seriously impressive log book of globe-circling adventures, has booked the same timing for her latest refit programme. In 2014 the Huisfit team also took care of various aesthetic and technical updates by sending its own 'flying squad' of specialist personnel out to Athena during a stopover in the Mediterranean.Athena arrived on 6th of August and Eos is expected later this summer. Both yachts will be at a deep seawater location in Holland for several months during the winter "refit season".
August 16, 2018
German shipbuilder Lurssen launched their first superyacht in the year 2018 in Rendsburg - 111-metre project TIS. Next, she will be outfitted, before her sea trials. This massive volume yacht, Project TIS was commissioned for a long-time charter client of Moran Yacht & Ship, who has over the past seven years, chartered some of the largest and highest quality motor yachts in the world. This experience has led to owner input on nearly every level, from guest accommodations to propulsion package selection, all the way to crew area design.With an interior and exterior styling by Andrew Winch Design, Project TIS will feature 2 helicopter pads, a 12 meter swimming pool, a resort inspired spa in the aft of the vessel, and palatial staircases that to date have only been seen in palaces. Her tender garage will accommodate 2 13 meter tenders, 2 additional 10 meter tenders, a submarine, and a abundant selection of other water toys. Lack of space will not be an issue for this family-oriented owner. In addition to a massive private owner's deck, eleven other guests staterooms will accommodate twenty-two additional guests in absolute comfort.TIS is expected to be delivered later this year.All photos by Klaus Jordan.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be guided to your destination via the dulcet-tones of James Earl Jones breathing through a ventilator? If so, then Tom Tom's announcement of their release of Star Wars voices for their GPS nav systems should make your day, and if not, then you should probably stop reading this right now because you are dead inside. Beginning this month Tom Tom is making one new Star Wars voice available for purchase through August. Following the first available voice, Darth Vader, June will see the release of C-3P0, July will be Yoda, and finally Han Solo will wrap up what will be remembered as The Summer of GPS Nerdyness. For the sake of entertainment, someone should come up with an R2D2 mod, available in September. I would buy it just so that I could get in witty, one-sided conversations with my car during my long road-trips to comic conventions and film festivals by myself. God, I am so alone…
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Now, amid growing evidence that it causes mental breakdown, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has decided for the first time to review its policies on solitary confinement.
Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, which pioneered solitary confinement, is a castle of a prison that was meant to reform incarceration itself when it opened in 1829. The idea behind the prison's solitary confinement areas was to use sensory deprivation to reform inmates. The thought was that the isolation and quiet would free the innately good soul.
"They believed that isolation here was going to bring about the best of these inmates. Change them for life. Make them penitent," says Sean Kelley, director of public programming at the historic site. "There is a lot of evidence that that is not what happened."
For many reasons that sound familiar today – including cost and questionable effectiveness — Eastern State dropped the practice in 1913, but by then the blueprint of this penitentiary had been copied more than 300 times across the Western world. The prison, once a state-of-the-art facility, closed its doors in 1970, and is now a museum.
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Last summer, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights subcommittee, led hearings to address solitary confinement practices. He says it was prompted by a New Yorker article by Boston surgeon Atul Gowande titled "Hellhole."
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Testifying in front of the committee was Charles Samuels, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Samuels explained the necessity of the solitary confinement to keep violent inmates apart from guards and other prisoners.
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From NPR News, this is WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Jacki Lyden. In this hour, celebrating the life of Aldo Leopold, the father of modern conservation; and too many Ph.D.s in the sciences. First, though, an estimated 80,000 American prisoners spend 23 hours a day in closed isolation cells for 10, 20, even more than 30 years. Now, amid growing concerns over the policy, the Federal Bureau of Prisons has decided, for the first time in its history, to review its policies on solitary confinement. That's our cover story.
LYDEN: When Charles Dickens visited the United States of America this very week in 1842, the two places he most wanted to see were the falls at Niagara, and a castle of a prison meant to reform incarceration itself - Eastern State Penitentiary, in Philadelphia. Eastern State Penitentiary pioneered solitary confinement for every inmate, back in 1829. This past week, we went there too.
SEAN KELLEY: Boy, it really is a bleak day here. We didn't use to open the building in winter at all because it's truly a ruin.
LYDEN: Sean Kelley, director of public programming, took us through the halls of the historic prison, now a museum. It's been preserved in a state of evocative ruin. Corridors of isolation cells radiate out like the spokes of a wheel, around a rotunda like an omniscient eye. Eastern State's first inmate was an 18-year-old African American named Charles Williams, who served two years here for stealing a watch and a gold key. Sensory deprivation was intended to reform the soul. Inmates were hooded; guards wore socks over their shoes; books weren't allowed. Redemptive? Kelley tells me Dickens didn't think so.
KELLEY: He said, "I hold the slow and daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain to be immeasurably worse than any torture of the body."
LYDEN: But it would be decades before Eastern State authorities changed the policy.
KELLEY: They believed that this isolation here was going to make - bring out the best in these inmates; change them for life, make them penitent.
LYDEN: And is there any evidence that that is indeed what happened?
KELLEY: There's a lot of evidence that that is not what happened.
LYDEN: The high cost, the questionable effectiveness, and the need for more cells led Eastern State Penitentiary to end solitary confinement by 1913. Unfortunately, by then, the practices - even the blueprint of this prison - had been copied more than 300 times around the world.
LYDEN: In 1970, Eastern State Penitentiary, by then antiquated and overcrowded, closed its last cell door. That same year, a young man - Robert King - was convicted for robbery and taken into custody at Angola state prison in Louisiana, beginning a sentence there that would last 32 years; 29 of them, in solitary.
ROBERT KING: You was in a 6-by-9-by-12-foot cell. You got an hour out to shower. And then after that, you were locked up all the rest of the days.
LYDEN: We'll talk to Robert King later on. But let's go back to last summer - of 2012 - when Sen. Dick Durbin, of Illinois, convened a hearing.
SEN. DICK DURBIN: Good morning. This hearing of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights...
LYDEN: Solitary confinement exploded with the law-and-order policies of the 1980s, when 40 states built what's called a supermax prison in which each prisoner is held in solitary. Since then, more questions have been raised about the mental health of prisoners incarcerated this way. Sen. Durbin is, by now, convinced it's a violation of the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment.
So are you prepared to say that this does constitute a violation of the Eighth Amendment against cruel and unusual punishment?
DURBIN: I can tell you that in the extreme, it most certainly does.
LYDEN: Testifying in front of the committee was the director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Charles Samuels. Samuels explained the necessity of the practice, to keep violent inmates apart from guards and other prisoners. And he read from a statement.
CHARLES SAMUELS: The use of any form of restricted housing, however limited, remains a critical management tool that helps us maintain safety, security and effective re-entry programming for all federal inmates.
LYDEN: Solitary confinement doubles or triples the costs of incarceration - up to $60,000 a year per inmate. But corrections officials who've seen its wide use now, for the last several decades, have their own evaluation of whether it does more harm than good. Here's Walter Dickey, formerly the secretary of corrections for Wisconsin.
WALTER DICKEY: I really believed, when I got close to the situation at the supermax in Wisconsin, that one of the things that I was seeing was mentally ill people who didn't come in mentally ill. But the level of security - frankly, the overcrowding, even when they didn't start out in segregation, was very detrimental to their mental health, and led them to act in ways that led them to get tickets. And tickets got them into segregation.
LYDEN: Tickets for small things lead to more segregation time; it can be an endless cycle. But Dickey says the practice should be reserved for really violent offenders.
DICKEY: People like that need to be isolated at least temporarily, if not for a longer period of time, until you can release them into the population - the general population, with some confidence that they're not going to do severe damage to other people.
LYDEN: Increasingly, former solitary prisoners are testifying to suicidal depression, self-mutilation, lethargy, hallucinations and other ills. At the time of his release in 2001, Robert King had been among the longest-serving solitary inmates in the country - 29 years. Together with two other men - Herman Wallace and Albert Woodfox - he's one of the Angola Three, serving over a hundred years between the three of them. They've sued the state of Louisiana, but King's co-plaintiffs remain in solitary confinement.
KING: The cells were pretty bad. And they were maybe about - maybe 3 feet wide, and about 6 feet long. It's almost like you was in a tomb, and there was a slab of concrete that you laid on, that you slept on. And you ate for breakfast, for a meal - you had three meals a day. You had two slices of bread each meal. During the wintertime, you froze. And during the summertime, you was overheated. And - but in any event, you were starved.
LYDEN: I'd like to know about your time in solitary, when you're in this CCR unit - this closed restriction unit. What was a typical day like? Could you tell me?
KING: For me, it spanned three decades. So initially, when we went to CCR, you know, you were allowed any number of books. And if you could afford a radio, that was allowed. You was in a 6-by-9-by-12-foot cell. You got an hour out to shower. And after that, you were locked up all the rest of the days. They brought your meals to your cell.
I mean, that practice continued except that it was kind of modified a little bit at a certain point, depending on whichever administration came in because over that period of time, you have a number of people going and coming. At one time - like I said - we were allowed any number of books. But it come a period of time - or came a period of time when they kind of minimized that to six books. In fact, well, you could say four because there - a dictionary and a Bible was something - was considered one of the books that you would have; you was allowed to have four other books. And at one point, we wasn't allowed to go in the yard. We had to file a lawsuit to get on the yard. It was seven years I was in CCR before I set foot on any soil.
LYDEN: Let me ask you about your mental health and also - you know, what you saw other prisoners go through, in terms of their mental health because you have had, by any measure, a very productive post-prison career. You've been a writer, a speaker internationally. But did everybody get through? I mean, how difficult was it for you to keep your thoughts together?
KING: (Exhales swiftly) I am telling you, it wasn't easy because - you know, I did see people come in; and I saw how open they were and then how, after a while, they become withdrawn. And I kind of insulated myself, when I saw what happened to them. I think it created a resolve - a steel resolve in myself, you know, to not to succumb to that.
So my thoughts - I used to love to think, and I used to love to write. I used to love to exercise. I would - time just didn't matter to me anymore but - except one thing: the time that I would, you know, utilize to try to get out of prison.
LYDEN: I asked him if he thinks about his friends and co-plaintiffs who are still inside - Wallace and Woodfox.
KING: Well, I do. I think about them a lot. April 17th will be 41 years that both have been held in solitary-like conditions in Angola. So it'll be 41 years. You know, I think about that. I was there for 29. And when I think about how much longer they have been there, it'll be like - what? - 12 years longer than I was.
And you know, people ask me this - the question all the time, well, why ain't you crazy, you know. And I just kind of laugh, you know. I let them know that, I didn't tell you I wasn't crazy, you know? I don't think a person could get dipped in waste and not come up smelling. And even though it may not be totally apparent, the impact and the effects are there.
LYDEN: One of the most stated reasons for long-term isolation is that it controls open-prison populations. Sen. Durbin noted just the opposite - that when Mississippi lowered its use of solitary confinement, violence reduced.
DURBIN: Prison violence went down by 50 percent, and the cost of incarceration went down. It was a wake-up call to all of us, to take a hard look at it. Maybe this just isn't the best way to deal with these problems.
LYDEN: And here's another sobering thought...
LYDEN: Standing, locked alone in one of the old, monk-like isolation cells at Eastern State Penitentiary, the feeling is of being adrift on an ice floe. The light comes from a shaft overhead, like an igloo. There's no window, no horizon. Almost 70,000 people passed through Eastern State Penitentiary before it closed its doors as a prison, over 40 years ago. That's fewer than the number of people in solitary confinement in America today, the most anywhere in the world. And most of them will one day rejoin society, ready or not.
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Something else to blather about whilst awaiting the start of camp--
A couple of days ago I ran across this website, which lists the supposed 21 most segregated cities in the US.
Before anyone gets all het up, this is segregation in terms of housing patterns--where people live, not where they shop or play or how they're treated, OK?The average black person lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent black. Without segregation, his neighborhood would be only 13 percent black, according to professors John Logan and Brian Stults at Brown and Florida State.
Logan and Stult evaluated segregation in major cities with a dissimilarity index, which identifies the percentage of one group that would have to move to a different neighborhood to eliminate segregation. A score above 60 on the dissimilarity index is considered extreme.
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- Ten are in the AFC, eight in the NFC
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- The NFC North*, NFC East, AFC South and AFC East each have all but one home town on the list (missing MIN, DAL, JAX and BUF, respectively)
- All 4 home towns of the AFC North are on the list
By this measure the AFCN is the most segregated-by-domicile division in the NFL: PGH 63.1, BAL 64.3, CIN 66.9, CLE 72.6.
I'm not entirely sold on the profs' methodology; OTOH it might be the best one could do from a practical standpoint. Whatever you might think, it's IMHO worth visiting that link to have a look at the color-coded maps.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:46 pm
Post subject: Reproductive Rights and the Government
I worry that this topic may have a lot of entries in the next while considering how hard Republicans are trying to undermine Roe v Wade.
The latest big news in the fight against Planned Parenthood is in Indiana:
Judge refuses to delay enforcement of Indiana abortion law
The measure, House Bill 1210, passed the legislature last month. The law would cut off about $2 million of the $3 million Planned Parenthood of Indiana receives annually in federal funds and make Indiana the first state to
prohibit the use of Medicaid at Planned Parenthood.
It also gives Indiana some of the strictest abortion rules in the nation. For example, doctors would be required to tell patients that life begins at fertilization and that a fetus can feel pain at or before 20 weeks.
Planned Parenthood and the ACLU argue that forcing doctors to give information -- information they claim is not factual or relevant to the patients and can be misleading -- violates First Amendment free-speech protections.
The lawsuit also contends that the new law's defunding provision, by taking effect immediately, would void contracts and grants already in effect, violating the U.S. Constitution's contract clause. The suit also says that the law imposes an unconstitutional condition on Planned Parenthood by requiring it to choose between performing abortions and receiving non-abortion-related funding, and says that the measure runs afoul of federal Medicaid law.
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PPIN president Betty Cockrum said Planned Parenthood would continue to see Medicaid patients for as long as possible by covering their medical costs out of its Womens Health Fund, but she is deeply disappointed by the judges ruling.
The courts ruling today means that 9,300 Medicaid patients at our 28 locations have lost services from their preferred provider, she said.
And as is usual with the defunding of Planned Parenthood, the access to any kind of women's care is essentially eliminated for most of the state.
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Planned Parenthood Plays Key Role For Some Low-Income, Rural Uninsured
Indeed, a 2009 report by the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive health research and advocacy group, found that a majority of low-income women consider a family planning center like Planned Parenthood their primary health care provider. But 73 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are located in rural or medically under-served areas, according to the organization's own data.
Every time I read something like this, especially about Planned Parenthood, I feel like crying. Why do people think that is is _possible_ to get even the yearly PAP exams without Planned Parenthood around to make it affordable? Cost of treatment for STDs or anything else just goes up, waaaay up, from there.
Do we have anyone on this board that is for defunding PP or can even explain it?
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 1:58 pm
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See this is why you young ladies should be waiting until marriage. Yep, nobody who is married needs an abortion, STD test, reproductive counseling, or annual cooter checkup.
Women, a vagina is like a car. Keep that car in the garage and only use it to go to church on Sundays, and it'll never need fixin'. Just like grandma's!
Re: pain at 20 weeks: How can a law require doctors to state something as fact that
probably isn't actually true
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:08 pm
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i certainly can't explain it - except to guess that a lot of these "pro-life" republicans are reading from the same fact-book as jon kyle, who made the speech claiming abortion was 98% of what planned parenthood does.
i don't know whether it is the republican majority in the house, or pressure from the tea party that is responsible for this sudden push against anything that might in any way do anything other than utterly discourage abortions - even if that means wrecking anything else to do with women's health. the house just passed HR 3, the "No taxpayer funding for abortion act" which (according to People for the American Way, anyway)
H.R. 3 does a lot more than its name would imply.
* It resurrects the failed "Stupak ban" from the healthcare debate, effectively banning even private coverage of abortion care, and adds a new tax penalty to ensure that the ban becomes a reality.
* It opens up the possibility that rape and incest survivors who choose abortion care could be audited by the IRS.
* It makes permanent the current annual ban on federal abortion funding known as the "Hyde Amendment."
* It continues a funding ban for the District of Columbia.
* It expands refusal clauses that allow healthcare providers to refuse to provide abortion services.
* Finally, it has been reported that Republicans are trying to reinstate a widely-condemned redefinition of rape through behind-the-scenes procedural tactics.
the rape-and-incest survivor bit is because this bill would make it illegal for women to use money from a health savings plan to pay for an abortion, unless it was done to end a pregnancy resulting from rape or incest, or if the health of the mother was endangered. so women would have to justify such use (potentially) to the IRA (and if most plans are anything like mine, you would have to provide documentation before they would allow the expense). it also puts additional costs on small (but not large) businesses that assist employees if they buy an abortion rider to their health insurance.
basically, they seem to have decided if they can't get roe v. wade overturned by the supreme court, they will simply try to make it impossible for women to afford abortions. and apparently, any collateral damage is irrelevant.
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Wheels: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says get an exam every 2 years starting at age 21 whether you are sexually active or not. Why they say that, I am not sure. Perhaps they don't believe that people over 21 are not having sex.
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Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 2:35 pm
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come now, las - you aren't trying to oppose this with _logic_, are you?
i think it's been pretty clear for a while, things like logic and evidence and stuff like that don't have a lot of pull with a lot of current legislators, on any level.
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Wheels: American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says get an exam every 2 years starting at age 21 whether you are sexually active or not. Why they say that, I am not sure. Perhaps they don't believe that people over 21 are not having sex.
I think it's to catch other health issues that could crop up? Like breast lumps and cysts and things? Mostly a guess on my part, though.
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We've been trying for years to get a bill passed in WA - a very blue state - that says simply that sex education must be factually correct. It's never passed. People in this country are fucking ridiculous when it comes to sex education and women's health. The sad thing is, if you sit down and talk to them, a lot of people are open to changing their minds. A lot aren't, but those that are are simply being inundated with misinformation - like the "not intended to be a factual statement" that abortions are 90% of what PP does (thank you Rep. Kyl, you douchebag).
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Women, a vagina is like a car. Keep that car in the garage and only use it to go to church on Sundays, and it'll never need fixin'. Just like grandma's!
now I get this image in my head of all the good godfearing folk riding to church on their sunday vaginas and well
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We've been trying for years to get a bill passed in WA - a very blue state
It's all the rain -- makes people depressed.
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The Bronx Zoo has an impressive collection of venomous snakes on display in its Reptile House. But out of sight it also has an impressive collection of antivenin to treat snakebites — though none of the zoo's snakes have ever bitten an employee or a visitor.
The antivenin is stored at the zoo because it is just a few miles from Jacobi Medical Center, which has one of the nation's leading snakebite-treatment centers and the only one in New York City, and the two work hand-in-hand to treat snakebite victims.
"We need each other," Dr. Michael Touger, the medical director of Jacobi's snakebite center and associate director of emergency medicine at the hospital, said.
Hospitals are not licensed to stock most exotic-snake antivenin, which are considered somewhat similar to experimental drugs, said Don Boyer, the zoo's curator of reptiles.
The zoo, which is run by the Wildlife Conservation Society, has a permit to hold the antivenin, and supplies it to Jacobi as needed.
That is not very often, Dr. Touger said. Jacobi treats only a few patients a year, most of them in warm weather. They arrive by ambulance and sometimes by helicopter from around the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut metropolitan region.
New York is not well known for snakes — at least not the reptilian kind — but people still manage to get bitten occasionally. The bite of a venomous snake can be fatal if the victim is not treated quickly, because some kinds of venom can stop the victim from breathing and others can cause internal bleeding.
The Jacobi-Wildlife Conservation Society snakebite treatment program "is quite special," Dr. Touger said, "with a very substantial body of clinical experience." It has treated about 175 patients with antivenin since it was established in the 1980s. About half were bitten by snakes in the wild, and the others by snakes acquired by collectors, Dr. Touger said. Without that treatment, he said, some of those victims might have died.
The standard treatment for a bite from a poisonous snake is to inject the victim with antivenin, which is where the zoo comes in, though the antivenin does not come from Bronx Zoo snakes.
But the zoo keeps on hand 14 kinds of antivenin, which it can supply to Jacobi, or other institutions, on short notice. Some antivenins can counteract the bites of several kinds of snakes from specific regions, and the zoo's supplies provide "broad coverage for venomous snake bites from species around the world," but not against every snake in existence, Mr. Boyer said.
An antivenin not available at Jacobi could be in stock elsewhere. Poison control centers have access to an index of which institutions in the United States have which antivenins — a list kept by a collaboration of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the American Association of Poison Control Centers, Mr. Boyer said.
Sometimes, the zoo or the hospital will send antivenin by helicopter to another hospital, but Dr. Touger's preference is to have the helicopter bring the patient to it, if possible, because "the outcomes are better." The antivenin is injected at intervals of two to four hours.
The most common culprit in regional snakebite cases is a timber rattlesnake or copperhead, both of which are indigenous to New York, Mr. Boyer said. In fact, Jacobi is allowed to keep antivenin for those two species on hand.
Victims may have been bitten while rock-climbing, or farming or during an outdoor activity at a summer camp, Dr. Touger said.
One patient treated at Jacobi this summer was bitten by a timber rattlesnake in his suburban garden in Montebello, N.Y., all of about 35 miles from Times Square. He had a very low platelet count when he arrived, but treatment saved him. Even then, Dr. Touger said, it took a month to get the platelets back to normal.
New York State and New Jersey require a permit to possess venomous snakes, but many other states, including Pennsylvania, do not. There are frequent swap meets there where people buy, sell and trade venomous reptiles, Dr. Touger said, recalling the case last year of a young man who bought an Asian snake, an albino monocled cobra, that was supposedly treated so it would not be venomous, but was. He brought it to his home in northern New Jersey. And it bit him.
The snake lover was found by a relative, gasping for breath, and was soon sent to Jacobi. At one point, he stopped breathing, "He had multiorgan system involvement and was near death," Dr. Touger said, but was saved and now feels fine.
Another case did not have such a happy ending. A woman in Putnam Valley, N.Y., had 57 venomous snakes in cages. Last summer, she put her arm in a cage, was bitten by a black mamba, a snake native to parts of Africa, and did not seek help, Dr. Touger said. "The State Police called it suicide by snakebite," he said. She died at her house.
The collaboration between Jacobi and the zoo began in 1980 and the program was first intended to treat staff members at the zoo if the need ever arose.
That evolved into the current program for treating other bite victims, Dr. Touger said.
Asked what a snakebite victim should and should not do, he said it was imperative to call 911 to get medical help immediately. Since most bites are on limbs, the affected area should be kept at the level of the victim's heart, and tightfitting clothing in the wound area removed, until help arrives. Neither the victim nor those with him or her should try to suck out the venom or cut out flesh around the bite. Nor should tourniquets or ice water or electric shocks be applied, he added.
When he takes medical students to the zoo's reptile house, "they love it," he said, adding of his bite-treatment work: "Of all the different jobs that I do, this is the most interesting and the most fun."